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And his fights are shortened, his character thwarted
Killed by Lyle Dylandy
Farewell, ex-Prince Aaaaalllliiiii!!!!!
|''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' song parody, to the tune of "Prince Ali (reprise)" from Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''}}
{{quote|''Maybe this is the Collective's new strategy. They don't [[Assimilation Plot|assimiliate]] anymore; they just show up and look helpless.''|'''B'Elanna Torres'''
{{quote|''My dear Spencer...how the mighty have fallen. Your umbrella has folded and now you have become a fugitive in the same world you once sought to control. We shall meet again before the conclusion of this drama. Then, you will learn of the history... '''I''' will write for this world!''|'''Albert Wesker'''
{{quote|''"In the first film, the Nothing was [[Eldritch Abomination|an abstract entity]]. In the second film, the Emptiness was [[Anthropomorphic Personification|the human form of dying imagination]]. In this film, it's literally just a bunch of bullies named "[[Accidental Innuendo|the Nasties]]"? How fucking uninspiring is that?! To go from complex ideas destroying worlds to [[Jack Black|one half]] of [[Tenacious D]] acting like a dick-mule! [[Sarcasm Mode|Boy, they keep upping the ante, don't they]]?"''|'''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]''', in his review of ''[[The Neverending Story (film)|The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia]]''}}
{{quote|Pity the modern supervillain. Unlike Professor Moriarty in [[Sherlock Holmes]], he is not a master criminal. Unlike [[Flash Gordon (film)|Ming the Merciless]], he cannot be a inscrutable Other whose villainy can be neatly reduced via racist pseudoscience to his origins. The [[Cold War]] is over and the overseas box office necessary for capital-intensive movies to actually make back their production and distribution costs narrows the range of potential foreign adversaries for heroes to battle. A combination of Hollywood political correctness and understandable audience discomfort with ten years of war nixes al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or Iran from the list of possible villains. Most Americans have studiously ignored the horrific slaughter perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels. So what drives the modern supervillain and how does he (or she) carry out dastardly deeds?
The modern supervillain is truly a sad creature.
| ''[https://blogtarkin.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/strategy-and-the-supervillain-problem/ Strategy and the Supervillain Problem ]'' by '''Adam Elkus''' on Grand Blog Tarkin}}
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